Movies

Starring Sally Hawkins & Steve Coogan: An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Socially inept 17-year old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller, gets a job at a video store where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks!) is a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside-down.

Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture! A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Leave. Sarah Polley’s new film, in which a group of women in an isolated Mennonite religious colony in Bolivia struggles to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.

Brendan Fraser gives the performance of a lifetime. A reclusive English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.

Tommy Wiseau’s misguided masterpiece subverts the rules of filmmaking with boundless enthusiasm. Audience participation encouraged!

Part of the series BIPOC Movie Nights, organized in collaboration with students from Queen’s Film and Media. An auspicious debut for writer-director Cheryl Dunye, The Watermelon Woman tells a fresh story in wittily irreverent style. An aspiring black lesbian filmmaker researches an obscure 1940s black actress billed as the Watermelon Woman, while managing her personal […]

A stop motion animated film from Wes Anderson: An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation.

The kick-off of our new monthly family film series: An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation.

A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.

A decade-long chronicling of the travels of the head of the Catholic church across all corners of the world. Composed entirely of archival footage, the film grants rare access to the public life of the pontifical, not only from the elevated security of a pulpit but from the more democratic grounds of unpaved streets and vast public avenues.

A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.